Physician Assistant Loan Repayment Program

Loan repayment is made possible by the State of Oklahoma through the Health Care Workforce Training Commission in order to offer the following benefits:

• Assistance to Oklahoma licensed primary care physician assistants who agree to establish a practice in a community located in Oklahoma approved by the Commission.
• Access to medical care and services to Oklahoma citizens in rural and underserved areas with special emphasis to Medicaid and Medicare recipients.

Applicant must:

• Be licensed to practice medicine in Oklahoma.
• Be a licensed physician assistant in a primary care practice that includes family medicine, geriatrics, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery or emergency medicine.
• Have legitimate, documented medical educational loans through an educational loan institution.
• Not have any service obligation that would conflict with this obligation.
• Not be currently practicing in a rural Oklahoma community.

$60,000.00 maximum for three years.
  $10,000 at the end of your first year.
  $20,000 at the end of your second year.
  $30,000 at the end of your third and final year.
This is based on the amount of educational loans to be repaid.

This is a 50% / 50% matching program with the practice community.

Participating physician assistant must agree to practice medicine at the contracted medical facility. The obligation is year to year.

Non-Qualifying Communities
Due to the rural aspect of the scholarship, communities near Oklahoma City and Tulsa may not qualify for residency location. To qualify as a rural community, the city must be located in Oklahoma and must fall outside of a 30-mile radius of Tulsa and a 35-mile radius of Oklahoma City. Lawton is also excluded due to its significant population and urban infrastructure.